Biogeography-Based Optimization: Algorithms and Applications

• Main Authors: Zheng, Yujun (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Lu, Xueqin (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Zhang, Minxia (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Chen, Shengyong (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Computational intelligence.; Artificial intelligence.; Algorithms.; Mathematical optimization.; Geobiology.; Computational Intelligence.; Artificial Intelligence.; Optimization.; Biogeosciences.

This book introduces readers to the background, general framework, main operators, and other basic characteristics of biogeography-based optimization (BBO), which is an emerging branch of bio-inspired computation. In particular, the book presents the authors' recent work on improved variants of...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• The basic biogeography-based optimization
• Localized basic biogeography-based optimization: Improved by local topologies
• Ecogeography-based optimization: Improved by new migration mechanisms
• Hybridization with other algorithms
• Applications in transportation
• Applications in image processing
• Applications in neural network learning.